| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Economist by Xenophon: money in building useless houses, the other at far less cost erecting
dwellings replete with all they need; will you admit that I have laid
my finger here on one of the essentials of economy?
[1] Lincke [brackets as an editorial interpolation iii. 1, {ti oun,
ephe}--vi. 11, {poiomen}]. See his edition "Xenophons Dialog.
{peri oikonomias} in seiner ursprunglichen Gestalt"; and for a
criticism of his views, an article by Charles D. Morris,
"Xenophon's Oeconomicus," in the "American Journal of Philology,"
vol. i. p. 169 foll.
[2] As a demonstrator.
Crit. An essential point most ceertainly.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Hellenica by Xenophon: Cf. Diod. xv. 62.
[2] See above, VII. i. 46.
Faction and party strife ran high in Sicyon between the better classes
and the people, when Euphron, getting a body of foreign troops from
Athens, once more obtained his restoration. The city, with the help of
the commons, he was master of, but the Theban governor held the
citadel. Euphron, perceiving that he would never be able to dominate
the state whilst the Thebans held the acropolis, collected money and
set off to Thebes, intending to persuade the Thebans to expel the
aristocrats and once again to hand over the city to himself. But the
former exiles, having got wind of this journey of his, and of the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx: provision beforehand for these occasional revolts. Here and
there the contest breaks out into riots.
Now and then the workers are victorious, but only for a time.
The real fruit of their battles lies, not in the immediate
result, but in the ever-expanding union of the workers. This
union is helped on by the improved means of communication that
are created by modern industry and that place the workers of
different localities in contact with one another. It was just
this contact that was needed to centralise the numerous local
struggles, all of the same character, into one national struggle
between classes. But every class struggle is a political
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